Few days back Scott and Omar announced the release of a new version of DasBlog this release comes with tons of new feature. I just cannot wait to get my hand on it and update my current version.

Here's some of the new features.

• Much better multi-user/blogger support including a Top Posters macro and total comments - from Christoph De Baene
• TagCloud Support - from Scott
• Support for Mobile Browsers like Blackberries and SmartPhones - from Scott
  • Note the large section in your web.config and the mobile theme that is required for this support.
• Huge (100x+) speedup in Macro execution - from Scott
• Support for If-Not-Modified to speed up execution, improve RSS bandwidth and CPU cycles - from Scott
• Direct Feedburner Support with 301 redirection for RSS and Atom feeds. Don't lose a single subscriber. We're the only blog with direct support for Feedburner and Feedflare I believe. - from Scott
  • I encourage you to check out FeedBurner. You can add FeedFlare to your posts, and modify your feed in ways DasBlog can't. They also handle your Feed bandwidth and provide rich statistics. It's free ($ for advanced stats) and it's very powerful. Do be aware that when you make the decision to move over to FeedBurner your existing feeds will start redirecting folks to FeedBurner immediately. That's part of the power of the whole thing, but be warned.
• Delete comments directly from your mail reader - from Omar
• Comment moderation option
• New themes out of the box, 18 at last count - from Many Folks
• New XML-RPC support for newMediaObject and new version of XML-RPC.NET from Charles Cook - from Omar and Giuseppe Dipietro
• Macros for Next Post and Previous Post - Justice Gray
  • Check the DasBlog theme or add this line to the top of your itemtemplate.blogtemplate.
    <%PreviousLink("&laquo;&nbsp;",25)%><%MainPageEntryLink("Main", "|")%><%NextLink("&nbsp;&raquo;",25)%><br/>
• A few security and XSS fixes
• Support for Gravatars, images of your choosing that appear next to your comments - John Forsythe
• Support for limited HTML markup in comments
• Emails removed to avoid having email addresses stolen from Feeds
• Added an Email page for leaving comments to the author, includes Captcha
• New support for RSD so client software can autoconfigure itself - from Omar
• Pluggable Rich Text Editor, choose from the latest version of FreeTextBox or FCKEditor or write your own adapter - from Josh Flanagan
• Support for alternate SMTP ports
• We work with Windows Live Writer out of the box - from Omar
• Support for CoComment - from Scott
• Microsummary support for Firefox 2.0 Beta - from Scott
• Organized source, build, and packing for clarity - from Josh Flanagan
• New Feed Icons - from Omar
• Autometic generation of Google SiteMaps - from Scott
• Automatic disabling of Comments after a certain number of days. Also manual "close comments" support - from Omar
• ContentLookAhead show future dated posts - from Josh Flanagan
• Other fixes and suggestions from Tomas Restrepo, Jason Follas, Rene Lebherz and Steven Rockarts. Added entry CPU usage optimizatons from George V. Reilly.
• Ajax Autosave Drafts support from Steven Rockarts and Justice Gray.
• Better strings and support for German from Alexander Groß, Portuguese from Adelino Araújo, and Vietnamese from Phạm Đức Hải.
• Many great new themes

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